In one of your videos on fasting, you talk about the hormone ghrelin. It secretes and makes you hungry at the times you typically eat if what you said is right. For example you typically eat breakfast at 7am, so each day ghrelin will be released at that time even if you woke up and snacked at 2am. When you fast and reset that routine or in other words the times when Ghrelin is released, then you don't find yourself hungry. That's why many people dont feel hungry after multiple days of fasting. What I'm getting at is, willpower is the first step towards something then you let your body do the rest. Hormones and all the physiological process you can't voluntarily control of course. In the example, you willpower your way towards fasting and not eating despite ghrelin making you feel hungry. Then you past that point where ghrelin doesn't know when you eat anymore and isn't secreted as much. Just some thoughts after watching your videos, and it may not apply to all willpower situations, not sure haha. What if you use willpower at the right moment, then let your body do the rest?
Yea! I agree with this. To be honest I don’t think Ego Depletion is as simple as Baumeister makes it sound - the reason you get “on a roll” (at least with diet and exercise) is for reasons like this - changes in Physiology literally make things easier. Like you said, willpower is necessary for the first couple steps then it is much easier over time.
Also the depletion doesn’t show it self with the main goal. If you exercise will power on any one area and you are successful, it can be likely you will burst something elsewhere.
I agree that building a new routine makes following through almost automatic, but for your fasting example: In the times before maximum telework, I'd wake up at 4:00, drink some black coffee, get ready for work, and leave by 5:00 without packing any lunch. I always took a large bottle of water with me and some salt. Between being busy at work, not having a lunch with me, and also having the water and salt available, the factors that might lead me to eat lunch (including at the cafeteria or leaving the office for lunch) were all but non-existent. At the start, had any other stimulus had polled my brain with "are you hungry?", I would have been really hungry, but there were no environmental stimuli to prompt thinking about food, so even with the physiological hunger, there was no psychological hunger to go with it. Then, as you said, the adjustment of ghrelin kicked in and I actually wasn't hungry at lunch time.
@@WhatIveLearned I think it relates to our habits and addictions too. I believe anything can be an addiction. People just resort to detrimental behavior. For example, some people get stressed about difficult tasks or even just negative thoughts. They can't willpower through doing said task and cortisol/adrenaline is released. They want to counter this with a quick dopamine high, so they do things like eat an unhealthy but delicious snack, play video games, our watch television. They're not eliminating the cortisol or stress effect, but suppressing that feeling. It just becomes a pattern. This continuous pattern of cortisol and adrenaline being accumulated can lead to weight gain and weak immune system. This can also explain why people procrastinate. They want the reward of completing a task but why do that when opening a back of chips can almost match the dopamine high of getting 100% on a test you study for instead. Many would choose the immediate high. Willpower is just weakened by so many factors, hormones and neurotransmitters pretty much. We do too much as a society, and never give our minds time to do nothing. Like a dopamine fast. I listen to music so much and drink coffee a lot. Took a break from my phone for a week, and no music. Heard music again and somehow it sound so much better. Such a miraculous and complex body, there's so many ideas I have haha. Let's just say we're not steam engines that rely on one source to move.
I'm an impulse buyer, I disabled the automatic payment option on my online stores recently. Uber Eats, Amazon, Steam, Google play store ETC. So everytime I would buy something online I had to type in my full credit card information every time I wanted to buy something and that saved me a ton of cash now, because I only buy things that are worth the trouble now.
“Willpower is like a muscle. You can tire it out.” I completely agree with (and evidence supports) this analogy. It logically follows that willpower is like a muscle. It can be trained to make it stronger.
I started to add every video in my watch later when browsing the homepage. Most of the time I scroll through there, add tons of videos and leave UA-cam because I'll have more time later and just wanted to see what's new. And I no longer have the fear of never finding those great videos again that I see on the homepage. you could even have two playlists, one for knowledge and a random one, to make it easier to actively watch content like this. It's not a perfect solution, but now I only watch UA-cam when I actively take the time for it. My watch later is growing rapidly, but I'm not worried about that. Also, I linked my usual homescreen shortcut to my watch later playlist, so I don't get sucked into new content when I just open the app out of boredom. I hope this helps you finding your own technique to deal with UA-cams design :)
I personnaly can't recall anything major from the last video I watched. Nothing stayed into my brain. UA-cam does not help one to learn by itself, but is simply a distraction... unless you pause the video for a moment and actively think about the subject
It's like that fungus that redesigned the Tokyo subway system. Put her alone with a marshmallow mobius strip, she could unlock other dimensions to get at the candy.
@@R.O.T.C._SEEM it was genius, creative brilliance. Shame you cannot see that was a classic example of thinking outside of the box. I believe it might even have been logically sound too, depending on how she was instructed
here the tips that guaranteed will work, i introduce you the ultimate concept of "being poor and broke". video game? food? alcohol? you won't struggle resisting that if you had no money to afford that in the first place
@@jensenraylight8011 Can't afford video games? Piracy. Can't afford alcohol? Sneak into a party. Can't afford food? Well, you'll probably die unless you can afford *some* food, and junk food is much cheaper than even just getting the ingredients for proper meals.
That's Commitment, one of 6 key principles of influence as defined by Robert Cialdini. Once we decide for something and make it part of our personal identity, we're far less likely to go against that decision. So in this case once you truly saw yourself as a non-smoker and it became a part of who you are, it became easier to make it a reality. Kind of a positive self-fulfilling prophecy...
Honestly, the idea of removing the temptation altogether is pretty effective. When I moved out of my parents' house, I decided I didn't want to eat as many sweets. So, now having control over my own pantry, I just simply don't buy sweets. Sure, I see them in the store, but I just keep walking.
Have you ever heard of Odyssean Self-Control? This is a similar concept. It's less about failing to train against the urge, and more about capitalizing on a moment of willpower so that a future moment of weakness isn't an issue in the first place. This in turn promotes habit, and habit is a damn strong trainer.
Believe it or not, I'd still call that progress. If you look up spoon theory, you depleted your spoons by blocking the sites and turning off your phone and may need some time to recover. The important thing is giving yourself permission to recover from things, no matter how small you'd like to believe they are. Start small, keep going, and I'll see you on the other side! :)
Try doing the task first thing in the morning. According to these studies, you should have most willpower right after you wake up, before you open social media or tire yourself out in any other way.
Same. Turning off distractions isn't doing anything for me. I'll just start daydreaming forever. I'm part of the ADHD tribe though, so it's kinda expected.
This is why I ate much healthier once I moved out. If I have sugary snacks and treats in my house, I'll eat them. But if I buy my own food, I never let myself buy treats or unhealthy foods.
Same For me it also works because i know no one but me can eat my food No freaking siblings who suddenly steal ur snacks, so i feel like i can eat it at any time I even lost some weight because of it
i resonate with this. ive lived in community and on my own. when i lived in a community we would all go in on snacks and eat out more. as compared to when i lived by myself i was a lot more strict when it came to diet.
I still crave snacks even if I don't buy them, resisting them sometimes gets easier if I manage to abstain a couple of days, other times it just gets worse. If I'm at home it gets worse worse out of sheer boredom, while if I'm actively doing something that keeps my attention occupied, like being at work, it's a lot easier.
Last I heard, a lot of these willpower-based and ego depletion studies have not been effectively replicated and have been recently been called into question, and should thus be taken with a grain of salt.
No mention of Ulysses? He wanted to hear the sirens, but knew that he'd be tempted to jump into the ocean to swim to them. So he had his sailors tie him to the mast beforehand, and he couldn't jump into water. Past Ulysses knew Future Ulysses was going to do something dumb, so he cut off his options.
Someone needs to show her some Jordan Peterson videos so she can realize that deception is a dead-end street and your (her) house is _not_ on it. It is a place you do not want to be. It will come back to bite you at the worst possible moment.
@@by9diz8 dodge the attack, dont block . It is easier to just stand ur ground and block it, but u will get tired out eventually, better to dodge it and save up ur stamina cuz there r more than just one enemy.
I think willpower is more like a form of energy than it is like a muscle. For example, when one is tired, one must sleep to replenish that energy store. When one is hungry, one must eat to replenish that energy store. When one is out of willpower, one either gives in to the will or simply waits for time to pass to restore their willpower. Perhaps there is a better method for restoring the willpower energy reserve that could be learned.
Cora D. It’s unknown whether willpower is finite though. The study with the cookies and radishes is rather flawed bc it doesn’t account for factors like the calories in the food. Willpower is important because there are still situations when you cannot restrict your options and have to rely on willpower.
@@Vexas345 That's actually a way to manipulate you. You shouldn't eat the marshmallow because it's not healthy however when you conpare it to eating 2 marshmallows it seems like eating 1 is the healthy option
@@joelcoll4034 It just needs to be something with temptation over a long enough period of time. Example, here's $5000, but if you don't spend any of it for 6 months, I'll give you another $5000. I'm sure that one is a lot more difficult than the marshmallow, especially since the reward is much greater, but so is the temptation.
for some people just not attempting suicide takes willpower beyond what most would know. don't be suprised when they fall behind on everything and can never focus. all their energy is spent just staying afloat.
Yeah but I think it's a temporary thing. Once you've planned your day all you have to do is follow that plan, and while at first it requires willpower to follow that plan, eventually your daily plan becomes habitual
Sometimes I enter a state of indecision where I just sit and scratch my head while not doing assignments or falling to temptation, and end up doing nothing the whole time
Don't underestimate the power of relaxation and meditation. It builds up and fuels the actions that follow. If doing "nothing" is seen as negative, undesirable, unproductive, something to avoid, then yes you will probably drain some unnecessary energy thus losing some proportion of its initial benefits ;) I've also encountered many situations like you described. I think cannabis was definitely a factor but it is the mindset that controls all
Having an experience of being obesed and loosing 20kg, trust me, not having snacks available at all is way better than having some stored and thinking “I’m gonna have one each week”
The challenge here is not resisting to eat snacks near to you but to buy them the next time you go into a store. That's why it's better to use another distraction to overlay the first one.
@@rigierish3807 Oh i loved to just eat snacks all day few months ago, but now i barely bring myself to eat normaly, but even to take a snack. So yeah... But starving is not a solution, especialy to lose weight. Since you gain the weight back after you start to eat normaly.
@@kaiosouza1 yeahh anything is better than starving....what's your point? Stores don't give out oreos out to the hungry every time someone eats one or anything, no starving person is ever getting oreos.
This is why online school doesn't work for a lot of people, because most temptation are at home and if you're always around them then you're always thinking about them.With public school those things aren't around and you're able to focus because of that.
There's also your surroundings you know u can't control the school surroundings and keep it clean and it doesn't bother u much but for ur house u gotta do something abt it and it just weighs on ur mind and eventually u fall into the cycle of procastination
@@theadcheferIt’s simplified, but it plays on the points already discussed in the video. If you’re in public school, they’re gonna take away your phone for the entire day if you take it out at anytime besides lunch or study hall unless they want you to do a Kahoot so the teachings become more thrilling and enjoyable alongside the rest of the class
I think that Pyrowave meant that eating the cookies didnt necessarily make them perform better. If realising the puzzle was impossible was the achievement to reach then the radish eaters performed better.
Lol. Radish diet = enlightenment! I was thinking maybe the sugary cookies gave them a sudden energy surge so they kept puzzling up until their cookie-induced-sugar crash..
I'd argue that after waiting three hours to eat, being able to eat the cookies gave that group of people a brain boost to persist with the puzzle. Meanwhile, the radish people were still low-bloodsugar which makes it harder to think and function, thus giving up faster.
I’ve noticed also the opposite effect: the more you give in to temptations, the more likely you’ll give in to the next one. Did anyone notice that as well?
That seems more like developing a habit. Cue the temptation and then you keep giving in because thats how you've responded to it for the majority of the time, and the reward is usually instantaneous so it becomes way more likely for that habit to stick.
Interesting perspective. But the study also continued, when the kids who waited did not receive the extra marshmello, the next they didn't respond similarly to the same offer, they ate the marshmello given to them. The expectancy of reward is a factor for motivation, or what you said, willpower. The distraction created by kids was merely a means.
I mean... yeah, no wonder. That's exactly what willpower is: doing something unpleasant so as to get a reward. We just use it for more complicated things as we grow up--instead of waiting on one marshmallow to earn a second, we put up with work to earn money, or exercise to earn better health. If we didn't get paid for our hours of work, or if exercise didn't lead to better health, do you think anyone would bother with them?
I just rewatched this video after a year of working a full-time office job in my living room and it’s given me a whole new perspective on working from home. I always knew in the back of my head that I seemed to be less productive working from home but couldn’t put my finger on it. I seem to get less done even on days where I don’t waste my time not doing work. Just having my kitchen and bedroom and TV within a ten second walk means I’m spending more time actively fighting the urge to get up to do something else.
I've always had the opposite experience, and I always assumed that people at work who said this were lying. They just didn't have any real friends, and they wanted to have fake work friends in the office. I hated being at work so much, sometimes I would just go sit in my car and wonder if people would notice. WFH is the only reason I"m not homeless or in jail lmao
6:50 “Mitochondria is the ______ of the cell” A: Administrative Assistant of the Cell B: Road House of the Cell C: Foreman of the Cell D: Powerhouse of the Cell *Chooses A*
I feel like that is why doing homework to school at home is so painfull, there is just little to no reward for doing it, you do it so that it is done, the only reward is, that you can go and do whatever you want after you finished it, but that is pretty shitty reward, because if you didn't do the homework, you could have done the thing you want the entire time. The reason that there is no reward is, that it is just boring and most of the time you are not solving problems and thinking about ways to do it, you just copy what you are supposed to learn and write it into your notebook.
This is the reason why online school doesn’t work. You constantly have the option to play videogames or watch netflix instead of listening to your teacher and making homework.
Even if resisting a desire weakens your ability to concentrate, online school would still be a viable option for many. Personally, never had any issues with it. If playing video games or watching Netflix is something that is constantly on your mind while learning, perhaps creating a space somewhere purely for study would help you immerse yourself in your work.
@@sliph4169 That's the thing that worked best for me, stopped trying to study in my bedroom, a dedicated environment makes all the difference. That just reinforces the point of the video since such an environment reduces eye contact with distractions, thus straining less of our willpower to resist those things.
One way I pretty much quit drinking soda was to gradually switch to pure mineral water. Basically the best way is to modify your habits over time to eventually reach the desired goal.
Same, when I was little, my parent used to put me on a desk with nothing else than a pencil and my book, and yet I was distracted by how the ink went from the ink chamber to the paper
I am not saying that everyone should focus on academics but if you wanted to study but didn't have the environment for it. Pretty sure, you'd focus on studies a lot more
@@jebronekitty If doing homework genuinely but genuinely doesn't help you, then just ask for a copy of it from your friends and study your own way. Or make it look like you have given a lot of effort to it but don't. As long as you can solve SAT -and after you pass the exam, especially the real life problems related to your field, it doesn't matter how you study and learn. If it's effective of course. That said, as long as the teacher doesn't give homework just to make you busy, it's useful for revising what had been taught in the lectures
So this is why when I left my phone in the car while in the library studying with just books and note pads I was able to focus for way longer for med school tests
Very interesting concepts, but also important to recognize that a retroactive examination of the marshmallow study showed a positive correlation between the children’s level of food insecurity and how likely they were to eat the marshmallow
It also depends on if they believe the adult. Will they have the marshmallow that is there or trust a stranger that promises you another one. So that's a factor. As adult, will you give a single hot dog you were going to have to a stranger that promises you two in five minutes? Most likely not. Does that say anything about willpower lol?
Its an extremely flawed experiment. A marshmallow now; when you crave it most, is infinitely better than just 2 marshmallows later. They shouldve offered like 30 marshmallows after ten mins instead.
@@ValCronin It's not even a choice between one marshmallow now and several later. It's a choice between a marshmallow you HAVE and a PROMISE of more. Politicians love to deny people marshmallows with promises of aeons later) Or that, an employer lets you choose: to get paid now guaranteed after a single month of work, or waiting and working for free for another month to then they promise to pay you for two months. What you choose, and what it has to do with willpower... or just the willingness to get exploited.
Doctor: "Are you interested in trying to quit smoking?" Me: " No, I'm saving my willpower for resisting the urge to compulsively snort cocaine all day everyday." Doctor: "Ok that's fair."
My favourite takeaway from James Clear's EXCELLENT book atomic habits is that we don't rise to the level of our goals, we fall to the level of our systems.
4:19 "the more desires they resisted, the more likely they were to give into future desires" That alone wouldn't support the concept of ego depletion -- it could also be simply that people who have been exposed to lots of temptations are likely to continue being exposed to them, and therefore more likely to eventually succumb. The more opportunities for temptation, the greater likelihood of giving in. In the same way as throwing more darts while blindfolded means you'll score more bullseyes, without meaning that you actually got better at it. That's why I prefer WIL's hypothesis that what's really happening is simply the cumulative effect of distractions in one's environment, caused by frequently thinking about temptations. I'm sure we've all been in situations where you're in a very distracting environment filled with temptations, and suddenly go into a much quieter environment with no distractions -- my memory of such situations is not of being mentally depleted, but actually refreshed and energised by the calmer, less distracting environment.
The last two days I lost my internet connection due to lack of payment. Today I got it back. From the two days I felt more calm and happier than normal (it's like the feeling of silence after being on a loud ambient) , also felt less the sense of wasted time. Now with internet back I feel sick and tired with consuming content all day long. Too much distractions
@@allangomes529 makes total sense. Back in 2017 I was fired from my job after only two weeks. I was pretty upset and took about a month off before doing interviews again and getting hired in the company I'm with today. During that month, I made a spreadsheet with a schedule, in 30 minute blocks, of my week. I made a list of the things I want to do with my time, gave each activity a number, and dropped them into the schedule using a lookup table (to avoid copy/pasting and make it easier to change an activity later). It felt a bit silly at first to be ruled by my own timetable, but it was unbelievably liberating. I felt totally focused and relaxed, and knew that I wasn't forgetting important habits and projects because it was all in the schedule (even stuff like "watch UA-cam videos" and Netflix had slots at the end of each day). After starting the new job I dropped the schedule, but am thinking of redoing it now.
@@allangomes529 oooh... a similar thing happened to me. The second day of no internet for the first time in my life I slept well. Almost like a baby. :)
Having less temptations and distractions (and being afflicted with ADD, so dopamine is an issue), is why when I'm in classes at college, even at age 33, is hard to work with at home. I have to do my classwork on campus. When the campus shut down this last spring due to Covid-19 and had to work from home my grades absolutely tanked. The temptation to not do the class work with all my video games and such around was far too much to handle.
damn... i feel the same way. I was able to finish out spring, but only at the cost of eliminating everything except schoolwork from my daily life, including a beloved hobby I'd recently started up and was willing to "trade in for now and be rewarded with again later" and then becoming agonizingly depressed and unable to find enjoyment in literally anything once the semester ended. I'm still trying to recover from that. I withdrew from summer a few weeks into it and am considering just waiting until next year to return now that fall has been shut down too.
i don't have conntrol over grocery shopping for my household but ive been thinking for TIMEE that when i'm older im just NOT gonna buy food to get skinnyyy
yeah but there is only a few set of things that can work this way, for some things even if you don't try to resist them, your subconcious is still trying to resist them and so without you knowing or being able to react any differently, you still do it. I don't know ANY person that had the energy to resist his own desires IN THE LONG RUN or try not to resist them without falling into resisting them
Man wish I could just shut off the internet to he productive with school but I need internet to be able to do school work so I end up doing stuff on the internet instead
@@gabemerritt3139 yes but for example I distract myself with youtube quite a lot of times, but I sometimes need youtube to study because I watch videos that explain me concepts so I can't lock youtube 😂😂
My screen time averages 10-12 hrs a day. I’m not sure how much of that is on UA-cam but it’s A LOT. What’s been helping me lately is literally just deleting the app. I download and re download the app at least 1-2 times a day. I realized that I was opening it on autopilot each time I was bored or trying to escape something important. Soo it’s a lot more of a conscious decision to go to the App Store, re download, re login, change to preferable settings like dark mode than it is to just do 2 clicks to open.
@@xdrowssap4456 thats why when you're a kid its hard to diet if youve gotten fat if your family buys a lot of junk food, the temptation is there and you tend to be unable to ignore it. Dont buy a soda? Dont have the urge to drink said soda instead of water.
As a person living with ADHD, this is super validating, as I can get extremely exhausted after doing seemingly nothing - because every moment, I'm fighting my symptoms and the temptation to do something else, whereas someone else may not have the same impulses as often. This is a very interesting way of thinking of that concept.
@@Ankit-zu2kp Maybe this video doesn't comply with his/her opinion and he/she doesn't want to think about it and just trash talks everybody who disagrees with him/her.
I think of it like this: You store up the willpower overtime, but it reaches a limit at one point. Using it all the time just uses up the willpower rather than storing it up. I think of it like energy, theoretically you could increase your capacity, but it's followed with a lot more exhaustion than just not spending it
You can dedicate a certain area in your house/room (or even better, a crappy laptop where you can't do anything else) to condition your body in doing different 'mode'. Other tools is to dedicate a specific day/time for playing and stick to it until it became a routine.
My self control against being tempted by snacks is a bit of a weird one. I don't eat my snacks because I was afraid I'd run out of snacks, and have to wait a month for a new supply when I have to order new ones from Japan. Now I just have piles of unopened snacks form years ago.
There's a limited amount of mental energy/willpower to deal with all your temptations/cravings, so having to use your willpower many times throughout the day almost guarantees it will be weaker as the day turns into evening and you're getting more tired. Arrange your life so that you have fewer reasons to exercise your willpower and you'll have enough to get you through your day and night (that's how I understand it, anyway. YMMV.) I don't want to be tempted by sweets, so I never keep them in the house and when I'm in a store or watching tv, I turn away or turn the channel and remind myself how damaging they are for my health and well being. Reasoning it out works well and so does not having to see them at all. Ironically, the next time I'm faced with them and can't escape (like having a big platter full of sweets being placed right in front of me at a friend's house) I seem much more prepared to deal with them wisely..
When I taught myself web development, I told my girlfriend not to let me play video games, except for maybe once a week. I went from playing 2-3 hours a day, to 2-3 hours a week. I did this for a whole year. And once I was successful and got a job, I found that I didn't want to play video games nearly as much. This gave me more time to do other things that are much more fulfilling.
you were only playing 2-3 hours a day? someone has his priorities straight -posted by a man who has spent every living day of his life on youtube since covid
Yes! When you break out of a comfortable, less rewarding thing and start doing more rewarding things it really changes how you think. For me it was similar. I spent almost every moment online, but eventually I picked up some hobbies such as biking and I feel so much happier and freer. I spend so much less time online now and the significantly less time I spend gives me about the same reward as all those days I spent before. Diversifying your life really makes everything more rewarding and gives you a bigger picture of the world.
Fun fact: a child's ability to pass the marshmallow test depends on whether or not they believe they'll get the second marshmallow. They may not trust the adults to keep their promise or they may not believe food is so freely available that they can just choose not to eat it when they have it. Kids who ate that first marshmallow are afraid of losing their chance.
I wouldn't call it a "(fun) fact", but it's a cool theory! I've never thought about the experiment this way, but it really makes sense. My guess: self-confidence, basic trust in others and whatever we call willpower are somehow related. If a kid (or an adult for that matter) can't defer a certain need (for example eating a marshmallow) there must be reasons for that behavior. So yeah, makes sense to look for those reasons. Great comment, really made me think again - thanks :)
What if the kid had no taste for marshmallows (hated marshmallows), but thought they would be forced fed? Therefore they eat the one marshmallow prevent being forced into gulping down two. Sound smart to me😎
Study also has its limitations. In real time we are not locked away with the addictive substance. Kinda like the mice that chose cocaine, but only because they were isolated. Basically, if we have a strong and positive emotional connection to others, we are empowered to make better choices.
Everytime I hear the topic of will power discussed, I notice that it's mostly focused in terms of resisting temptations. I never hear about how effective will power is for taking action on any area of your life. It's one thing to put in place systems to avoid cravings and distractions but what about the will power you need to recruit for a positive action? The will power to look for work, the will power to make that sales call, the will power to talk to the pretty girl or the will to go to the gym. The common answers touted are "have a system" or "create a habit" but if it's something you haven't done before or it holds a bunch of hurdles for you, creating a system let alone a habit is just not within your reach. I think will power had been down played too much with this kind messaging and it holds a lot more importance than what the self help industry will lead you to believe. Awareness alone is not enough and corrective action is essential for change. You can be painfully aware of a situation but that awareness alone will not make you take action. That's where will power comes in. Nobody talks about this and there should be more teachings on mastering will power rather than down playing it because it assures the target audience that they can have what they want easily. (Before hitting them with a pitch for a high tier program or course... But that's a whole other soap box)
Awesome video! Informative. Thanks for all the info. It is kind of a testament to minimalism, digital and physical. If don't want to be distracted by all these things, don't have them. Also, The bicycle was traveling across the screen from left to right. The dotted line is the front tire because it has more abrupt turns and the plain line's turns were "lagging" behind. At least, that's what I deduce.
The whole "can't do it" approach when I was a kid ended up with me putting those inaccessible things on a pedestal making me obsessed with them and low and behold once I grew up I was hooked
I recently deactivated my Facebook and Instagram accounts, and I found that too, if it’s not available to you after a few days you don’t think about them at all
@No Name UA-cam is a website you can use it without app or logins so deleting it without turning off internet or blocking it with parental control or something is impossible.
This goes back to another channel i discovered "healthy gamer" a psychologist. A lot of his videos unwrap problematic behavior and assumptions around video games. This reminded me that I am attempting to eat and drink healthier but the easiest way for me to do so is to not have junk foods around the house.
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In one of your videos on fasting, you talk about the hormone ghrelin. It secretes and makes you hungry at the times you typically eat if what you said is right. For example you typically eat breakfast at 7am, so each day ghrelin will be released at that time even if you woke up and snacked at 2am.
When you fast and reset that routine or in other words the times when Ghrelin is released, then you don't find yourself hungry. That's why many people dont feel hungry after multiple days of fasting.
What I'm getting at is, willpower is the first step towards something then you let your body do the rest. Hormones and all the physiological process you can't voluntarily control of course.
In the example, you willpower your way towards fasting and not eating despite ghrelin making you feel hungry. Then you past that point where ghrelin doesn't know when you eat anymore and isn't secreted as much.
Just some thoughts after watching your videos, and it may not apply to all willpower situations, not sure haha.
What if you use willpower at the right moment, then let your body do the rest?
Yea! I agree with this. To be honest I don’t think Ego Depletion is as simple as Baumeister makes it sound - the reason you get “on a roll” (at least with diet and exercise) is for reasons like this - changes in Physiology literally make things easier. Like you said, willpower is necessary for the first couple steps then it is much easier over time.
Also the depletion doesn’t show it self with the main goal. If you exercise will power on any one area and you are successful, it can be likely you will burst something elsewhere.
What I've Learned Thanks for pinning this, very interesting 🤔
I agree that building a new routine makes following through almost automatic, but for your fasting example: In the times before maximum telework, I'd wake up at 4:00, drink some black coffee, get ready for work, and leave by 5:00 without packing any lunch. I always took a large bottle of water with me and some salt. Between being busy at work, not having a lunch with me, and also having the water and salt available, the factors that might lead me to eat lunch (including at the cafeteria or leaving the office for lunch) were all but non-existent.
At the start, had any other stimulus had polled my brain with "are you hungry?", I would have been really hungry, but there were no environmental stimuli to prompt thinking about food, so even with the physiological hunger, there was no psychological hunger to go with it.
Then, as you said, the adjustment of ghrelin kicked in and I actually wasn't hungry at lunch time.
@@WhatIveLearned I think it relates to our habits and addictions too. I believe anything can be an addiction. People just resort to detrimental behavior.
For example, some people get stressed about difficult tasks or even just negative thoughts. They can't willpower through doing said task and cortisol/adrenaline is released. They want to counter this with a quick dopamine high, so they do things like eat an unhealthy but delicious snack, play video games, our watch television. They're not eliminating the cortisol or stress effect, but suppressing that feeling. It just becomes a pattern.
This continuous pattern of cortisol and adrenaline being accumulated can lead to weight gain and weak immune system.
This can also explain why people procrastinate. They want the reward of completing a task but why do that when opening a back of chips can almost match the dopamine high of getting 100% on a test you study for instead.
Many would choose the immediate high.
Willpower is just weakened by so many factors, hormones and neurotransmitters pretty much. We do too much as a society, and never give our minds time to do nothing. Like a dopamine fast. I listen to music so much and drink coffee a lot. Took a break from my phone for a week, and no music. Heard music again and somehow it sound so much better.
Such a miraculous and complex body, there's so many ideas I have haha.
Let's just say we're not steam engines that rely on one source to move.
Man defends his expensive Tupperware purchase for 12 minutes and 37 seconds...
as any anthropologist of the 21st century western male will tell you, that's about right
Cringe. I have one too and it's incredibly useful.
@@physically3027 top tier comment
😂😂😂そう言う通り
Out of sight, out of mind.
"Choose your battles wisely, if you fight all of it you'll be too tired to win in the important ones"
This is best comment
👌👌
The battle is the Lord’s.
Is that from art of war?
Most ‘fights’ aren’t tiring so why not fight them?
I'm an impulse buyer, I disabled the automatic payment option on my online stores recently. Uber Eats, Amazon, Steam, Google play store ETC. So everytime I would buy something online I had to type in my full credit card information every time I wanted to buy something and that saved me a ton of cash now, because I only buy things that are worth the trouble now.
That's funny because I memorized all of my CC information and I just type it out like I would type out my email and password.
that's a light hearted example of 1st world problems 😊
Stefan147 haha same
Mhm.
You should try opiates lol I’m sure your brain isn’t that set on instant gratification / cravings. You could totally handle them.
“Willpower is like a muscle. You can tire it out.”
I completely agree with (and evidence supports) this analogy. It logically follows that willpower is like a muscle. It can be trained to make it stronger.
Exactly my thoughts too
I can't believe this has so few likes
Why make it stronger when you don't have to use it
@@bananamonkeygaming14 And why not make it stronger or do you need more willpower to do it.
Luffy: omae va mou... BUTOBAS
UA-cam addiction is even worse... if I quit I can’t learn all great knowledge but it takes too much of my productivity
Knowledge is nothing without action
I started to add every video in my watch later when browsing the homepage. Most of the time I scroll through there, add tons of videos and leave UA-cam because I'll have more time later and just wanted to see what's new. And I no longer have the fear of never finding those great videos again that I see on the homepage. you could even have two playlists, one for knowledge and a random one, to make it easier to actively watch content like this.
It's not a perfect solution, but now I only watch UA-cam when I actively take the time for it. My watch later is growing rapidly, but I'm not worried about that. Also, I linked my usual homescreen shortcut to my watch later playlist, so I don't get sucked into new content when I just open the app out of boredom.
I hope this helps you finding your own technique to deal with UA-cams design :)
I personnaly can't recall anything major from the last video I watched. Nothing stayed into my brain. UA-cam does not help one to learn by itself, but is simply a distraction... unless you pause the video for a moment and actively think about the subject
Start meditating
Fr fr
The mitochondria is the administrative assistant of the cell..
its obviously roadhouse of the cell
@@Benisued Roadhouse
@@williams322 plantpower
Foreman
Emitter of Free Radicals.
"she ate the inside of the marshmallow." I'm not even joking that's potential genius material there.
criminal genius
It's like that fungus that redesigned the Tokyo subway system. Put her alone with a marshmallow mobius strip, she could unlock other dimensions to get at the candy.
In jail for eating her cats insides to get another.
Not really. If she was genius then she would have just waited. What she did wasn't smart
@@R.O.T.C._SEEM it was genius, creative brilliance. Shame you cannot see that was a classic example of thinking outside of the box. I believe it might even have been logically sound too, depending on how she was instructed
Atomic Habit says it clearly:
"You don't control yourself; you control your environment in which later will control how you behave."
Really brilliant.
here the tips that guaranteed will work,
i introduce you the ultimate concept of "being poor and broke".
video game? food? alcohol?
you won't struggle resisting that if you had no money to afford that in the first place
@@jensenraylight8011 Can't afford video games? Piracy. Can't afford alcohol? Sneak into a party. Can't afford food? Well, you'll probably die unless you can afford *some* food, and junk food is much cheaper than even just getting the ingredients for proper meals.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 thats dumb cope
What If I live with other people, in my grandma's house, because I'm still not old enough to change this environment?
@@tomsektul31it’s science.
I quit smoking by telling myself "I'm not a smoker" repeatedly, everytime I got the craving until it went away
Did it work? Im trying to quit smoking as well
Yesir
Im not a coomer, im not a coomer
That's Commitment, one of 6 key principles of influence as defined by Robert Cialdini. Once we decide for something and make it part of our personal identity, we're far less likely to go against that decision. So in this case once you truly saw yourself as a non-smoker and it became a part of who you are, it became easier to make it a reality.
Kind of a positive self-fulfilling prophecy...
@@HolkHugan lmao
As Sun Tzu once said: "If a battle cannot be won, do not fight it."
As the mighty Zote said too
@@Messi-hl9cw so what do you say?
@@Messi-hl9cw calm down , he's just saying at times you have to go with the flow , not all the time so chill
@@Messi-hl9cw okay messi wannabe
YEEE LET'S ALL BE 1000 POUNDS AND AT CONSTANT RISK OF HEART FAILURE!!! WOOOHOOO
"Researchers thought torturing kids would be fun." That's how all breakthroughs are made.
I Love to Play, imagine, pretend, aaaannndddd! Kaaazzooo!!!
Same
Sacrifice
How come I havent made any breakthroughs? I have countless kids in my basement.
and they wonder why they don't trust you...
Honestly, the idea of removing the temptation altogether is pretty effective. When I moved out of my parents' house, I decided I didn't want to eat as many sweets. So, now having control over my own pantry, I just simply don't buy sweets. Sure, I see them in the store, but I just keep walking.
Have you ever heard of Odyssean Self-Control?
This is a similar concept.
It's less about failing to train against the urge, and more about capitalizing on a moment of willpower so that a future moment of weakness isn't an issue in the first place. This in turn promotes habit, and habit is a damn strong trainer.
@@maskedmenreiki I have never heard of it in name, but that is pretty much exactly what I do.
@Mas-ud Al-hassan Of all the religions that exist, that is, in fact, one of them.
What if someone gives you sweets?
And how do you resist the urge to buy sweets?
So the moral of the story is: Out of sight - out of mind
People with ADHD would like to disagree
@@gz6148 in fact they were about to but then they started thinking about different stuff. And forgot about it.
But what abt pandora's box? That may help, but at some point it really is up to you
Ojos q no ven corazon q no siente
got 8 kg heavier in 3 months because I stocked food (noodles, biscuits, etc) instead of buying cooked meal outside
Me:
- Blocks websites
- Turns off phone
- Doesn't have the willpower left to do task
Believe it or not, I'd still call that progress. If you look up spoon theory, you depleted your spoons by blocking the sites and turning off your phone and may need some time to recover. The important thing is giving yourself permission to recover from things, no matter how small you'd like to believe they are. Start small, keep going, and I'll see you on the other side! :)
But you didn't block youtube apparently
Try doing the task first thing in the morning. According to these studies, you should have most willpower right after you wake up, before you open social media or tire yourself out in any other way.
LMFAO
Start with half the task first. Smoke 10 bowls then finish remaining task by end of the day.
6:50 The dude in the stock footage really said the mitochondria is the Administrative Assistant of the Cell.
lmao didn't notice haha
Ahahaha
Truly he is way wiser than all of us.
This is the comment I was looking for.
I got this answer right purely from the internet jokes about mitochondira being the powerhouse of the cell
I feel like the girl who ate the inside of the marshmallow but not the outside is on another level and none of these rules probably apply to her.
No she still ate marshmallow
That little girl grew up to be Sam Bankman-Fried.
I only wish I was playing on her level.😅
This is quite literally the definition of "Work smarter, not harder."
Literally
Unless you're smart to the point of dissembling the container.
Even better, work smarter and harder
@@feminico2613 this is damn true , 🙌
Greg Doucette in shambles
I would probably stare at the ceiling rather than do my project with an inpending deadline
lock the ceiling
Same. Turning off distractions isn't doing anything for me. I'll just start daydreaming forever. I'm part of the ADHD tribe though, so it's kinda expected.
Same here, I can be distracted by my own thoughts..like I can have an all-nighter just thinking.
I'm doing that right now
Delete your ceiling
This is why I ate much healthier once I moved out. If I have sugary snacks and treats in my house, I'll eat them. But if I buy my own food, I never let myself buy treats or unhealthy foods.
Same
For me it also works because i know no one but me can eat my food
No freaking siblings who suddenly steal ur snacks, so i feel like i can eat it at any time
I even lost some weight because of it
@@dshewaspretty same
i resonate with this. ive lived in community and on my own. when i lived in a community we would all go in on snacks and eat out more. as compared to when i lived by myself i was a lot more strict when it came to diet.
This is what I want to dooo
I still crave snacks even if I don't buy them, resisting them sometimes gets easier if I manage to abstain a couple of days, other times it just gets worse. If I'm at home it gets worse worse out of sheer boredom, while if I'm actively doing something that keeps my attention occupied, like being at work, it's a lot easier.
Last I heard, a lot of these willpower-based and ego depletion studies have not been effectively replicated and have been recently been called into question, and should thus be taken with a grain of salt.
@@eduardomartin8510yeah.
I do not have enough willpower to look for sources
No mention of Ulysses? He wanted to hear the sirens, but knew that he'd be tempted to jump into the ocean to swim to them. So he had his sailors tie him to the mast beforehand, and he couldn't jump into water. Past Ulysses knew Future Ulysses was going to do something dumb, so he cut off his options.
niceeeee
The greek definition of a hero is defined by strenght and feats, but man was this a big brain moment.
It was Odysseus who did that
i think you mean odysseus
Ulysses is just the Roman name for Oddysseus.
Plot twist: the tupperware is 60$ so that you can resist breaking it
Genius
@@Messi-hl9cw wdym
👏 👏 👏
@@Messi-hl9cw absolutely not
@@ts4gv with the combined power of black pfp we will defeat messi
That girl who ate inside of marshmallow is genius.
That girl is now a politician.
Someone needs to show her some Jordan Peterson videos so she can realize that deception is a dead-end street and your (her) house is _not_ on it. It is a place you do not want to be. It will come back to bite you at the worst possible moment.
@@jchinckley no one needs to watch Jordan Peterson videos.
@@jchinckley why? Lol
@@Uthrain Watch Three Arrows's video on him. If that isn't convincing enough, watch Hasan Piker debate Peterson fans.
"Will power is for losers"
Shounen protagonists: Why must you hurt me this way
All shonen is sht except jojo and hxh
@@IAm-zo1bo Those are the words of someone who hasn't watched one piece
@@ravenhart4387 yes i read it
@@IAm-zo1bo Fair enough, can't be bothered to argue for something so trivial, Jojo and hxh are great shows though.
@@ravenhart4387 it's so obvious that you're a twitter user
The short version of this video, "distract yourself from your temptations rather than resist them.
Out of sight out of mind
No it's easier, it's: "get rid of your temptations".
@@by9diz8 dodge the attack, dont block . It is easier to just stand ur ground and block it, but u will get tired out eventually, better to dodge it and save up ur stamina cuz there r more than just one enemy.
Be distacted from your distractions
@@btchiaintkidding7837 Words of wisdom
you say willpower is like a muscle, it can get tired. but wouldnt that implicate it can be trained to some degree, too?
I think willpower is more like a form of energy than it is like a muscle. For example, when one is tired, one must sleep to replenish that energy store. When one is hungry, one must eat to replenish that energy store. When one is out of willpower, one either gives in to the will or simply waits for time to pass to restore their willpower. Perhaps there is a better method for restoring the willpower energy reserve that could be learned.
Cora D. It’s unknown whether willpower is finite though. The study with the cookies and radishes is rather flawed bc it doesn’t account for factors like the calories in the food. Willpower is important because there are still situations when you cannot restrict your options and have to rely on willpower.
It's like a stamina meter
I think that with enough positive reinforcement, willpower can be bolstered to perform more reliably.
Willpower may be subject to jelqing
"A single marshmallow is an easy task for adult".
About that...
I always hated marshmallows
Marshmallows are just okay. I'd probably eat the marshmallow just because the reward of a second marshmallow isn't worth it lol
@@Vexas345 That's actually a way to manipulate you. You shouldn't eat the marshmallow because it's not healthy however when you conpare it to eating 2 marshmallows it seems like eating 1 is the healthy option
Asmore I love your profle picture!
@@joelcoll4034 It just needs to be something with temptation over a long enough period of time. Example, here's $5000, but if you don't spend any of it for 6 months, I'll give you another $5000.
I'm sure that one is a lot more difficult than the marshmallow, especially since the reward is much greater, but so is the temptation.
Couldn't it be argued that the ability to plan, and willingly give up temptations from the start, is also a kind of willpower?
It shows self awareness but i wouldn't call it willpower.
@@egg8404 you don’t think giving up temptations requires willpower?
for some people just not attempting suicide takes willpower beyond what most would know. don't be suprised when they fall behind on everything and can never focus. all their energy is spent just staying afloat.
Yeah but I think it's a temporary thing. Once you've planned your day all you have to do is follow that plan, and while at first it requires willpower to follow that plan, eventually your daily plan becomes habitual
It is willful. It is keenness and tactfulness of will, not raw willpower.
Sometimes I enter a state of indecision where I just sit and scratch my head while not doing assignments or falling to temptation, and end up doing nothing the whole time
Bro exactly what I am doing right now Nothing!
Me too.
Don't underestimate the power of relaxation and meditation. It builds up and fuels the actions that follow. If doing "nothing" is seen as negative, undesirable, unproductive, something to avoid, then yes you will probably drain some unnecessary energy thus losing some proportion of its initial benefits ;) I've also encountered many situations like you described. I think cannabis was definitely a factor but it is the mindset that controls all
IS THERE A NAME FOR THIS OMG
@@POPDATA im pretty sure its just called being indecisive
Having an experience of being obesed and loosing 20kg, trust me, not having snacks available at all is way better than having some stored and thinking “I’m gonna have one each week”
The challenge here is not resisting to eat snacks near to you but to buy them the next time you go into a store. That's why it's better to use another distraction to overlay the first one.
Yyyyyyup.
Or near you. Like in your room. Because that's a very dangerous game. To have snacks in your room.
@@rigierish3807 Oh i loved to just eat snacks all day few months ago, but now i barely bring myself to eat normaly, but even to take a snack. So yeah... But starving is not a solution, especialy to lose weight. Since you gain the weight back after you start to eat normaly.
@@bluebeka2458 exactly. if there's snacks in my room, they don't last a day, even though they were meant to last a week.
The clip of his throwing away the bowl of oreos made me experience every negative emotion at once
@Sasi Arsivi still food
@@kaiosouza1 not really, a crapton of sugar and chemicals, barely qualify as food
@@arcisvar4863 still better than starving
@@kaiosouza1 yeahh anything is better than starving....what's your point?
Stores don't give out oreos out to the hungry every time someone eats one or anything, no starving person is ever getting oreos.
@@arcisvar4863 still hard to watch it being thrown out
This is why online school doesn't work for a lot of people, because most temptation are at home and if you're always around them then you're always thinking about them.With public school those things aren't around and you're able to focus because of that.
that’s a lot of generalization… terrible take
There's also your surroundings you know u can't control the school surroundings and keep it clean and it doesn't bother u much but for ur house u gotta do something abt it and it just weighs on ur mind and eventually u fall into the cycle of procastination
@@theadcheferIt’s simplified, but it plays on the points already discussed in the video. If you’re in public school, they’re gonna take away your phone for the entire day if you take it out at anytime besides lunch or study hall unless they want you to do a Kahoot so the teachings become more thrilling and enjoyable alongside the rest of the class
In theory yes.but well let's just say there were many moments in school it was still possible for me to distract myself.
I’m zoning out either way
It's easy to underestimate the mental energy that goes into making any conscious decision, and overthinking just makes it worse.
Every time I try to come up for excuses to not do a workout, I remind myself that after working out I have never felt regret for having done so.
Except when you get injured
@@Fridelain true! Done that!
And any time I face a temptation, I remind myself the regret that comes afterwards.
Hmmmm, I may try this.
I've also cut that with realisations that whenever I break from by diet or over eat I have never not regretted it.
Plot twist: the radish people gave up on the puzzle faster because they realized that it was an impossible one.
they all did give up for that reason. none did because they were too dumb for it
well if it is not rewarding and not obligatory for some other goal -who cares, right?
I mean, with the puzzle there was not much reward in sight? Unless they were avid puzzle players, the effort is not worth much
I think that Pyrowave meant that eating the cookies didnt necessarily make them perform better. If realising the puzzle was impossible was the achievement to reach then the radish eaters performed better.
Lol. Radish diet = enlightenment! I was thinking maybe the sugary cookies gave them a sudden energy surge so they kept puzzling up until their cookie-induced-sugar crash..
I'd argue that after waiting three hours to eat, being able to eat the cookies gave that group of people a brain boost to persist with the puzzle. Meanwhile, the radish people were still low-bloodsugar which makes it harder to think and function, thus giving up faster.
Work on my environment, not myself. Got it!
you control the environment when you control yourself
Ok, that's a very elegant way to put it, ngl.
Is there a difference between your environment and yourself?
@@ryanhawkos No, because we are part of the environment.
No just exercise
6:52 It bugs me so hard, that the dude didn't know that "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell"....
I was about to say..
Road Houseeee
LMAO
Check your eukaryote privilege.
@@NomoSapienss AHAHAHAHHH
I’ve noticed also the opposite effect: the more you give in to temptations, the more likely you’ll give in to the next one. Did anyone notice that as well?
Its not the opposite.
Just the longer you are consious in general the more likely you are to give in.
That's typically my deal. Once I open the box of indulgences, all the cravings come along
That seems more like developing a habit. Cue the temptation and then you keep giving in because thats how you've responded to it for the majority of the time, and the reward is usually instantaneous so it becomes way more likely for that habit to stick.
The law of diminishing intent
Interesting perspective. But the study also continued, when the kids who waited did not receive the extra marshmello, the next they didn't respond similarly to the same offer, they ate the marshmello given to them. The expectancy of reward is a factor for motivation, or what you said, willpower. The distraction created by kids was merely a means.
Motivation and willpower are not the same but they go with pair
@@whiteeye3453 i think motivation is like a wind, come and go.
but Will power is embedded within itself, its like a characteristic of a person.
@@beaconing7689 motivation is created from your enviornment in a sense.
I mean... yeah, no wonder. That's exactly what willpower is: doing something unpleasant so as to get a reward. We just use it for more complicated things as we grow up--instead of waiting on one marshmallow to earn a second, we put up with work to earn money, or exercise to earn better health. If we didn't get paid for our hours of work, or if exercise didn't lead to better health, do you think anyone would bother with them?
“Lead us not into temptation” not “allow me to resist temptation”
Brain: I'm thirsty
Me: No
*goes to the desert*
WILLPOWEER POWEEEEERR
That's how your brain punishes u for not providing water😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It worked for Jesus
I laughed at this more than I should have
Moral of the story: If you want to do something difficult later don't eat radishes :)
Just eat the radishes thinking it's a weirdly tasting chocolate.
Or watch UA-cam (AKA the cookie). 👍
I'm weird and enjoy eating radishes actually
Don't eat anything! The control did the best.
Yes... no, wait!
I just rewatched this video after a year of working a full-time office job in my living room and it’s given me a whole new perspective on working from home.
I always knew in the back of my head that I seemed to be less productive working from home but couldn’t put my finger on it. I seem to get less done even on days where I don’t waste my time not doing work. Just having my kitchen and bedroom and TV within a ten second walk means I’m spending more time actively fighting the urge to get up to do something else.
I've always had the opposite experience, and I always assumed that people at work who said this were lying. They just didn't have any real friends, and they wanted to have fake work friends in the office.
I hated being at work so much, sometimes I would just go sit in my car and wonder if people would notice. WFH is the only reason I"m not homeless or in jail lmao
@@fnamelname9077 Different strokes.
The Army uses this technique in basic by exhausting the person's willpower.
Ayy proto
Explain me more... :)-\-_
@@CogitoBcn so you dont make decisions by yourself, and become passive.
@@davidzapataaguilar437 ah... I was thinking more in applications to interrogations, but you may be also right.
@@davidzapataaguilar437 i thought it was a test to see if they are capable and probably succesful individuals (like the kids from the marshmallow)
6:50
“Mitochondria is the ______ of the cell”
A: Administrative Assistant of the Cell
B: Road House of the Cell
C: Foreman of the Cell
D: Powerhouse of the Cell
*Chooses A*
@@thedinosaurspecialist8053 Is that you Sherlock? This deductive genius just...wow
Yeah I think its D.
The Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell of the cell
This is hilarious 🤣 i didn't even see it the first time
@@thedinosaurspecialist8053 one cell can have multiple mitocondria.
E
"Your willpower is limited, but your creativity isn't"
Love it :)
Don't waste effort trying to resist temptation, find a distraction to not even think about it.
I feel like that is why doing homework to school at home is so painfull, there is just little to no reward for doing it, you do it so that it is done, the only reward is, that you can go and do whatever you want after you finished it, but that is pretty shitty reward, because if you didn't do the homework, you could have done the thing you want the entire time. The reason that there is no reward is, that it is just boring and most of the time you are not solving problems and thinking about ways to do it, you just copy what you are supposed to learn and write it into your notebook.
! Another reason to add to my "why I didn’t do my no-due-date english work" list
It's even worse with covid now bc I have to do all school work in the same location that's filled with distractions
@@jessie450 My iPad stares at me, begging me to open it. I wish I could go back…
@@yeetirosina everyday I find myself scrolling away on my phone lying on my bed when I don't truly want to
This is the reason why online school doesn’t work. You constantly have the option to play videogames or watch netflix instead of listening to your teacher and making homework.
I already play games in some classes. It just means I can more effectively play games in classes I don’t want to listen in.
Agreed.............. I really gotta stop. *someone help*
Even if resisting a desire weakens your ability to concentrate, online school would still be a viable option for many. Personally, never had any issues with it. If playing video games or watching Netflix is something that is constantly on your mind while learning, perhaps creating a space somewhere purely for study would help you immerse yourself in your work.
@@sliph4169 That’s Basically Proving The Point Though Because You’re Making An Environment Where You Can’t Do Anything Else But Study/Learn.
@@sliph4169 That's the thing that worked best for me, stopped trying to study in my bedroom, a dedicated environment makes all the difference. That just reinforces the point of the video since such an environment reduces eye contact with distractions, thus straining less of our willpower to resist those things.
One way I pretty much quit drinking soda was to gradually switch to pure mineral water. Basically the best way is to modify your habits over time to eventually reach the desired goal.
Parents: *Removes all distractions so I can do my homework*
Me: No, I don't think I will
Same, when I was little, my parent used to put me on a desk with nothing else than a pencil and my book, and yet I was distracted by how the ink went from the ink chamber to the paper
@@emile6351 i think you mean pen
I am not saying that everyone should focus on academics but if you wanted to study but didn't have the environment for it. Pretty sure, you'd focus on studies a lot more
There's no reward for doing homework
@@jebronekitty If doing homework genuinely but genuinely doesn't help you, then just ask for a copy of it from your friends and study your own way. Or make it look like you have given a lot of effort to it but don't. As long as you can solve SAT -and after you pass the exam, especially the real life problems related to your field, it doesn't matter how you study and learn. If it's effective of course. That said, as long as the teacher doesn't give homework just to make you busy, it's useful for revising what had been taught in the lectures
So this is why when I left my phone in the car while in the library studying with just books and note pads I was able to focus for way longer for med school tests
Very interesting concepts, but also important to recognize that a retroactive examination of the marshmallow study showed a positive correlation between the children’s level of food insecurity and how likely they were to eat the marshmallow
It also depends on if they believe the adult. Will they have the marshmallow that is there or trust a stranger that promises you another one. So that's a factor.
As adult, will you give a single hot dog you were going to have to a stranger that promises you two in five minutes? Most likely not. Does that say anything about willpower lol?
Its an extremely flawed experiment. A marshmallow now; when you crave it most, is infinitely better than just 2 marshmallows later. They shouldve offered like 30 marshmallows after ten mins instead.
@@ValCronin It's not even a choice between one marshmallow now and several later. It's a choice between a marshmallow you HAVE and a PROMISE of more. Politicians love to deny people marshmallows with promises of aeons later)
Or that, an employer lets you choose: to get paid now guaranteed after a single month of work, or waiting and working for free for another month to then they promise to pay you for two months. What you choose, and what it has to do with willpower... or just the willingness to get exploited.
@@KasumiRINA Great point!!
@@KasumiRINA Yeah, it seems more an experiment about trust and risk-taking than about willpower.
I have now shared this with my group therapist and it has been emailed out for all in the group. Hehehe, what a great video.
"Researchers thought torturing kids would be fun"
As they always have 😂
Researchers, Hollywood, the Royals, Hankx....
The school system and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
I mean... yeah
I couldn't stop laughing.
Those kids were super cute.
Doctor: "Are you interested in trying to quit smoking?"
Me: " No, I'm saving my willpower for resisting the urge to compulsively snort cocaine all day everyday."
Doctor: "Ok that's fair."
I used coke everyday for years, then 1 day I just quit. It's not addictive
@@GTSN38 Ayyy That's the thing, you did what you wanted to do, now you do what you wanna do. No excuses.
@@GTSN38 meth is though
Do you have the money to do so?
@@GTSN38 don't lie to us you ran out of money that's why you stop LOL
this is by far the best advertisement for smash bros ever.
lmaoo
You must've forgotten the n64 commercial
Second best smash commercial
No since he concluded to throw it away
My favourite takeaway from James Clear's EXCELLENT book atomic habits is that we don't rise to the level of our goals, we fall to the level of our systems.
Can someone please explain to me who Will Power is
A Choking Fish that’s funny. You’re funny
Some indi car racer
Cousin of Will Smith
Probably related to Austin Powers
It's the steel samurai
4:19 "the more desires they resisted, the more likely they were to give into future desires"
That alone wouldn't support the concept of ego depletion -- it could also be simply that people who have been exposed to lots of temptations are likely to continue being exposed to them, and therefore more likely to eventually succumb. The more opportunities for temptation, the greater likelihood of giving in. In the same way as throwing more darts while blindfolded means you'll score more bullseyes, without meaning that you actually got better at it.
That's why I prefer WIL's hypothesis that what's really happening is simply the cumulative effect of distractions in one's environment, caused by frequently thinking about temptations. I'm sure we've all been in situations where you're in a very distracting environment filled with temptations, and suddenly go into a much quieter environment with no distractions -- my memory of such situations is not of being mentally depleted, but actually refreshed and energised by the calmer, less distracting environment.
The last two days I lost my internet connection due to lack of payment. Today I got it back.
From the two days I felt more calm and happier than normal (it's like the feeling of silence after being on a loud ambient) , also felt less the sense of wasted time. Now with internet back I feel sick and tired with consuming content all day long. Too much distractions
@@allangomes529 makes total sense. Back in 2017 I was fired from my job after only two weeks. I was pretty upset and took about a month off before doing interviews again and getting hired in the company I'm with today.
During that month, I made a spreadsheet with a schedule, in 30 minute blocks, of my week. I made a list of the things I want to do with my time, gave each activity a number, and dropped them into the schedule using a lookup table (to avoid copy/pasting and make it easier to change an activity later). It felt a bit silly at first to be ruled by my own timetable, but it was unbelievably liberating. I felt totally focused and relaxed, and knew that I wasn't forgetting important habits and projects because it was all in the schedule (even stuff like "watch UA-cam videos" and Netflix had slots at the end of each day).
After starting the new job I dropped the schedule, but am thinking of redoing it now.
@@allangomes529 oooh... a similar thing happened to me. The second day of no internet for the first time in my life I slept well. Almost like a baby. :)
You couldn't pay.
Why do you use the internet.
Get out of your own way.
Enable but do not indulge.
Having less temptations and distractions (and being afflicted with ADD, so dopamine is an issue), is why when I'm in classes at college, even at age 33, is hard to work with at home. I have to do my classwork on campus. When the campus shut down this last spring due to Covid-19 and had to work from home my grades absolutely tanked. The temptation to not do the class work with all my video games and such around was far too much to handle.
damn... i feel the same way. I was able to finish out spring, but only at the cost of eliminating everything except schoolwork from my daily life, including a beloved hobby I'd recently started up and was willing to "trade in for now and be rewarded with again later" and then becoming agonizingly depressed and unable to find enjoyment in literally anything once the semester ended. I'm still trying to recover from that. I withdrew from summer a few weeks into it and am considering just waiting until next year to return now that fall has been shut down too.
@@Cynadyde if you wait one more year, it'll be such time lost no ?
SAME
@@Cynadyde I feel that. Nothing feels the same since this spring.
Same :(
That's because we associate our home like the place where we can rest, relax ourselves from the stress of school, work, traffic, etc.
The point of resisting temptations is not having to fight them in the future.
I love this video so much. Thank you
Oh hello ThrillSeeker
Yooo Thrill!!!
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My man losing willpower to stop playing VR and make more VR YT videos.
“A single marshmallow is easy for us to resist as adults” ... speak for yourself man.
Goddamn it. Where is THE LAUGH REACT?
@@AnUnnamed3vil Here hahahah
Lol
Trouble is I don't want 2 marshmallows but by that logic, I am a loser..
For a second I thought you were holding a marshmallow in your profile picture and that your username was “cravingzana” no joking
Friend: "How do you lose so much weight?"
Me: "Simple, I'm too broke to afford any food other than the bare minimum"
Lol same
Small servings ftw
Exactly 😂
i don't have conntrol over grocery shopping for my household but ive been thinking for TIMEE that when i'm older im just NOT gonna buy food to get skinnyyy
That's how I lost 22 pounds
This is inarguably the best, most practical & most helpful video i've watched on youtube. or anywhere for that matter
You can’t resist your desires if you don’t even try to resist them in the first place. Loophole found
yeah but there is only a few set of things that can work this way, for some things even if you don't try to resist them, your subconcious is still trying to resist them and so without you knowing or being able to react any differently, you still do it. I don't know ANY person that had the energy to resist his own desires IN THE LONG RUN or try not to resist them without falling into resisting them
bruh
@@xHSBunny I think he means give in, you don't have to resist the cookies if you just eat them
Man wish I could just shut off the internet to he productive with school but I need internet to be able to do school work so I end up doing stuff on the internet instead
Me irl
THIS💀💀
He had that site blocker thing
This 🔫
@@gabemerritt3139 yes but for example I distract myself with youtube quite a lot of times, but I sometimes need youtube to study because I watch videos that explain me concepts so I can't lock youtube 😂😂
6:50
The audacity of this man.
Growing up without anything. Resisting temptations is second nature ro me.
🤝
Well, I want to cut back on watching UA-cam.
It's been going great...
Not so great for me 😅 I used to watch around 1-1 1/2 hours daily now it's like 2-3 hours daily because schools out
buttttt...you wouldn't have learned how to cut back on watching UA-cam if you hadn't watched this video - so you're um, you know, breaking even!
Same here dude
My screen time averages 10-12 hrs a day. I’m not sure how much of that is on UA-cam but it’s A LOT. What’s been helping me lately is literally just deleting the app. I download and re download the app at least 1-2 times a day. I realized that I was opening it on autopilot each time I was bored or trying to escape something important. Soo it’s a lot more of a conscious decision to go to the App Store, re download, re login, change to preferable settings like dark mode than it is to just do 2 clicks to open.
@Kelechi you can disable it in the settings
Just like buying junk food while on a diet, we CREATE the temptation AND sabotage ourselves! 🙄
So true. I have a love of soda. So, I never buy it. It makes not drinking them easier!
Or like going to the grocery store while hungry
@@mrs.w5539 you do know zero and sugar free options are completely fine, right? Obviously they're not healthy but not unhealthy either.
Sometimes i strangely feel comfort in knowing it’s around
@@xdrowssap4456 thats why when you're a kid its hard to diet if youve gotten fat if your family buys a lot of junk food, the temptation is there and you tend to be unable to ignore it. Dont buy a soda? Dont have the urge to drink said soda instead of water.
Immensely valuable information, thanks for sharing in such an entertaining way. Going to use this method while working on my next video.
Hey Glink, I never would have expected you here
Nice
Small world 🌎
yoooo! it's cool to see you here, bro!
I will sub if you talk to me
Bro you just saved me in the most critical time of my life. I could detain from college or shine like a star❤
"I locked my controller in a timed lock"
"Click out of one, nothing on two, three is binding....."
Based
Back to the beginning...
Love that guys channel
Didn't expect a LPL reference here lol
Ops my hand slipped, guess it opened on its own
As a person living with ADHD, this is super validating, as I can get extremely exhausted after doing seemingly nothing - because every moment, I'm fighting my symptoms and the temptation to do something else, whereas someone else may not have the same impulses as often. This is a very interesting way of thinking of that concept.
That sounds difficult and I hope all the best for you. This is an interesting perspective on the subject.
Dude, hecken same.
dude same, I genuinely thought this was just a thing with everyone and I'm just dumb but I guess that's not the case
It get worst when you also have to fight delusional thoughts all day 👌😍🔫
I have ADHD too and I feel the exact same way
I didn’t know I needed this video. Thanks for sharing. Subbed.
@@Messi-hl9cw In another comment, you said that he was bullied in school. Which one is it? Or are you just jealous?
@@Ankit-zu2kp Maybe this video doesn't comply with his/her opinion and he/she doesn't want to think about it and just trash talks everybody who disagrees with him/her.
@@Messi-hl9cw So why are you wasting your time commenting on it? Why add to your wasted time? Troll much?
If willpower is like a muscle, in the long run wouldn't it be better to strengthen it instead of avoiding the fights?
If it is like a muscle, you also need to give it the periods of rest that it needs to heal.
I don't think he meant the analogy as a whole, just the "fatigue part"
if it fatigues, what are the factors for it's original capacity? if such a thing exists, can't you logically increase it?
I think of it like this: You store up the willpower overtime, but it reaches a limit at one point. Using it all the time just uses up the willpower rather than storing it up. I think of it like energy, theoretically you could increase your capacity, but it's followed with a lot more exhaustion than just not spending it
@@garrettrinquest1605 Its not like you have a choice in that matter. Once you want to sleep you're gonna sleep
So what you’re saying is I should throw my computer off the roof so I can’t be tempted by it so I can focus on my online homework oh wait.
You can dedicate a certain area in your house/room (or even better, a crappy laptop where you can't do anything else) to condition your body in doing different 'mode'. Other tools is to dedicate a specific day/time for playing and stick to it until it became a routine.
You can switch to Linux/MacOS or install Linux as a secondary operating system. No interesting games there :)
Instead of throwing your entire computer off the roof here I suggest throwing you glamorous gpu off the roof and just rely on you intel HD graphics
@@heycat6167 might as well throw the whole thing off at that point lol
@@FrogTonic but you need it for online class
Where willpower fails, Discipline prevails.
That's been my motto for the last 2-3 years and it's helped me turn my life around
Isnt discipline one aspect of willpower
@@NeostormXLMAX no discipline is about habit and habit is about doing things repetitively over long duration
0:01 I thought that was a blender and that he was going to destroy his controller😅
Will it blend? That is the question!
Same XD
I thought: "That seems like an aggressive way to avoid gaming, but aight man."
Me too!
Would have been an effective strategy to avoid playing though
That would've been a better option
My self control against being tempted by snacks is a bit of a weird one.
I don't eat my snacks because I was afraid I'd run out of snacks, and have to wait a month for a new supply when I have to order new ones from Japan.
Now I just have piles of unopened snacks form years ago.
I don't call it strategizing. It is "playing mind games with myself."
I too play with myself
@@f1rebreather123 that's not we're talking about
@@f1rebreather123 that's not we're talking about
@@crossdagostino5778 No, no... he's got a point
"will power is like a muscle"
So if you exercise it you can make it stronger?
Yes
@@AB-ee5tb ok but how?
There's a limited amount of mental energy/willpower to deal with all your temptations/cravings, so having to use your willpower many times throughout the day almost guarantees it will be weaker as the day turns into evening and you're getting more tired. Arrange your life so that you have fewer reasons to exercise your willpower and you'll have enough to get you through your day and night (that's how I understand it, anyway. YMMV.) I don't want to be tempted by sweets, so I never keep them in the house and when I'm in a store or watching tv, I turn away or turn the channel and remind myself how damaging they are for my health and well being. Reasoning it out works well and so does not having to see them at all. Ironically, the next time I'm faced with them and can't escape (like having a big platter full of sweets being placed right in front of me at a friend's house) I seem much more prepared to deal with them wisely..
Will power can't be trained. It's like IQ
@@Predestinated1 IQ can be trained. Or at least the "visual logical pattern completion" tasks they use in IQ test can be trained for.
Me: *want to sleep*
Also me: *lock my bed in a gigantic plastic box*
Yeah. That's a tough one. If I try to avoid sleep but I really want to give in, I'll end up passed out on the floor or in a chair.
If your room has a lock, put the key in one of those boxes and do something outside your room while you wait.
i can sleep on any flat surface so i guess I'm doomed
@@kasschoong3979 yeah me too.
@@kasschoong3979 and at any time no less. I can almost sleep on command.
When I taught myself web development, I told my girlfriend not to let me play video games, except for maybe once a week. I went from playing 2-3 hours a day, to 2-3 hours a week. I did this for a whole year. And once I was successful and got a job, I found that I didn't want to play video games nearly as much. This gave me more time to do other things that are much more fulfilling.
Congrats :)
you were only playing 2-3 hours a day? someone has his priorities straight
-posted by a man who has spent every living day of his life on youtube since covid
Yes! When you break out of a comfortable, less rewarding thing and start doing more rewarding things it really changes how you think. For me it was similar. I spent almost every moment online, but eventually I picked up some hobbies such as biking and I feel so much happier and freer. I spend so much less time online now and the significantly less time I spend gives me about the same reward as all those days I spent before. Diversifying your life really makes everything more rewarding and gives you a bigger picture of the world.
Could have resulted in you now having a latent dislike for your girlfriend too. Just kidding.
Hello man, welcome to grownups club who just gave up their young hobbies 🎉
2:27
“What happens if I eat the cookie”
“Nothing”
*stares at the supervisor while slowly biting into the cookie*
supervisor takes out gun.
@@soham1 *Takes out gun gun*
@@coltonbates629 takes out gun gun gun
@@cajs100 Takes out gun gun gun gun
@@definitelynotafbiagent11ye24 takes out gun gun gun gun gun
"Out of sight, out of mind"
-German saying
Nicee
Like the Jewish? lol
@@dianalove539 How does that joke work?
@@justustherighteous371 I just found it funny cause he said -German
The Jewish concentration camps? It’s kind of makes sense yes?
@@dianalove539 cursed
Fun fact: a child's ability to pass the marshmallow test depends on whether or not they believe they'll get the second marshmallow. They may not trust the adults to keep their promise or they may not believe food is so freely available that they can just choose not to eat it when they have it. Kids who ate that first marshmallow are afraid of losing their chance.
I wouldn't call it a "(fun) fact", but it's a cool theory! I've never thought about the experiment this way, but it really makes sense.
My guess: self-confidence, basic trust in others and whatever we call willpower are somehow related.
If a kid (or an adult for that matter) can't defer a certain need (for example eating a marshmallow) there must be reasons for that behavior. So yeah, makes sense to look for those reasons.
Great comment, really made me think again - thanks :)
What if the kid had no taste for marshmallows (hated marshmallows), but thought they would be forced fed? Therefore they eat the one marshmallow prevent being forced into gulping down two. Sound smart to me😎
Study also has its limitations. In real time we are not locked away with the addictive substance. Kinda like the mice that chose cocaine, but only because they were isolated. Basically, if we have a strong and positive emotional connection to others, we are empowered to make better choices.
no there was still a difference when they showed them the second Marshmallow
Damn... That adds a whole new layer
“Will it blend? That is the question”
The girl who ate the inside of the marshmallow should get a third marshmallow for her creativity.
I don't believe your sentence makes sense buddy
Maybe his English isnt the best...
Or maybe punished for her attempt at deception? Lol
@@danielc1078 that was smart for a kid
laws are made up by dumb dumb idiots
It's like lifting weights. In the short term, hours or days, you're weaker after exercising. In the long run you're stronger.
Everytime I hear the topic of will power discussed, I notice that it's mostly focused in terms of resisting temptations. I never hear about how effective will power is for taking action on any area of your life.
It's one thing to put in place systems to avoid cravings and distractions but what about the will power you need to recruit for a positive action?
The will power to look for work,
the will power to make that sales call,
the will power to talk to the pretty girl
or the will to go to the gym.
The common answers touted are "have a system" or "create a habit" but if it's something you haven't done before or it holds a bunch of hurdles for you, creating a system let alone a habit is just not within your reach.
I think will power had been down played too much with this kind messaging and it holds a lot more importance than what the self help industry will lead you to believe.
Awareness alone is not enough and corrective action is essential for change. You can be painfully aware of a situation but that awareness alone will not make you take action. That's where will power comes in.
Nobody talks about this and there should be more teachings on mastering will power rather than down playing it because it assures the target audience that they can have what they want easily. (Before hitting them with a pitch for a high tier program or course... But that's a whole other soap box)
Such an important notice, thank you for this
Awesome video! Informative. Thanks for all the info. It is kind of a testament to minimalism, digital and physical. If don't want to be distracted by all these things, don't have them. Also, The bicycle was traveling across the screen from left to right. The dotted line is the front tire because it has more abrupt turns and the plain line's turns were "lagging" behind. At least, that's what I deduce.
The whole "can't do it" approach when I was a kid ended up with me putting those inaccessible things on a pedestal making me obsessed with them and low and behold once I grew up I was hooked
I recently deactivated my Facebook and Instagram accounts, and I found that too, if it’s not available to you after a few days you don’t think about them at all
Same here
How do I deactivate UA-cam 😭
TV is the same.
@No Name UA-cam is a website you can use it without app or logins so deleting it without turning off internet or blocking it with parental control or something is impossible.
This is why the green lanterns can't just will themselves to win every time.
OK idea, ring based on perception of your power, with it you are literally the best if you think you are.
@@toasthead that's kinda how the green lanterns work lmao
I don't get it cuz I don't watch green lanterns, anyone want to share?
@@healthyme6223 green lanterns can conjure anything so long as they have the willpower. The stronger ones will, the stronger ones conjurations are.
TheLoneSigma cool thanks thats an interesting concept. Im sitting next to my cat rn btw lol
This goes back to another channel i discovered "healthy gamer" a psychologist. A lot of his videos unwrap problematic behavior and assumptions around video games.
This reminded me that I am attempting to eat and drink healthier but the easiest way for me to do so is to not have junk foods around the house.